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| From | Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: Will 'free' return the memory Immediately to the OS ? |
| Date | 2012-05-16 09:55 +1200 |
| Message-ID | <a1g1m9Fd96U4@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <joui61$898$1@speranza.aioe.org> |
On 05/16/12 09:34 AM, Raj Pashwar wrote: > As per subject-line, thank-you Why couldn't you just write Will 'free' return the memory Immediately to the OS ? Assuming there is an OS, Yes and no. It depends on how the OS works. Memory is typically mapped to a process in pages and the allocator allocates memory from these. Most operating systems will leave unused pages mapped to the process unless they are needed elsewhere. -- Ian Collins
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Will 'free' return the memory Immediately to the OS ? Raj Pashwar <raj121190@hotmail.NOSPAM.com> - 2012-05-15 21:34 +0000
Re: Will 'free' return the memory Immediately to the OS ? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-05-16 09:55 +1200
Re: Will 'free' return the memory Immediately to the OS ? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-05-15 18:42 -0400
Re: Will 'free' return the memory Immediately to the OS ? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-05-15 16:49 -0700
Re: Will 'free' return the memory Immediately to the OS ? Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> - 2012-05-15 16:59 -0700
Re: Will 'free' return the memory Immediately to the OS ? Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-05-15 20:24 -0400
Re: Will 'free' return the memory Immediately to the OS ? David T. Ashley <dashley@gmail.com> - 2012-05-16 13:29 -0400
Re: Will 'free' return the memory Immediately to the OS ? Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2012-05-16 18:36 -0500
Re: Will 'free' return the memory Immediately to the OS ? David T. Ashley <dashley@gmail.com> - 2012-05-17 09:47 -0400
Re: Will 'free' return the memory Immediately to the OS ? Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2012-05-17 11:22 -0500
Re: Will 'free' return the memory Immediately to the OS ? Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-05-17 16:54 +0000
Re: Will 'free' return the memory Immediately to the OS ? Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2012-05-18 12:30 -0500
Re: Will 'free' return the memory Immediately to the OS ? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-05-17 14:09 -0700
Re: Will 'free' return the memory Immediately to the OS ? Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-05-17 21:05 -0400
Re: Will 'free' return the memory Immediately to the OS ? Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2012-05-18 17:41 -0500
Re: Will 'free' return the memory Immediately to the OS ? Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-05-18 20:19 -0400
Re: Will 'free' return the memory Immediately to the OS ? Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2012-05-22 15:08 -0500
Re: Will 'free' return the memory Immediately to the OS ? Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> - 2012-05-22 13:45 -0700
Re: Will 'free' return the memory Immediately to the OS ? Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2012-05-23 03:02 -0500
Re: Will 'free' return the memory Immediately to the OS ? Robert Miles <milesrf@Usenet-News.net> - 2012-06-24 23:49 -0500
Re: Will 'free' return the memory Immediately to the OS ? Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2012-06-26 10:33 -0500
Re: Will 'free' return the memory Immediately to the OS ? jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2012-05-18 19:44 +0000
Re: Will 'free' return the memory Immediately to the OS ? Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2012-05-18 17:27 -0500
Re: Will 'free' return the memory Immediately to the OS ? jgk@panix.com (Joe keane) - 2012-05-22 21:52 +0000
Re: Will 'free' return the memory Immediately to the OS ? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-05-23 11:12 +1200
Re: Will 'free' return the memory Immediately to the OS ? Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2012-05-23 03:15 -0500
Re: Will 'free' return the memory Immediately to the OS ? Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2012-05-17 11:54 -0500
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